The C button is one of the Switch 2’s most talked-about features. First, it was because of the secrecy about what it does. Then, after the tell-all Direct showcase, where some of us were slightly deflated to learn its actual purpose (which is to initiate GameChat in any game, and GameShare with select titles), the discourse then shifted from curiosity to concern. It’s going to be a subscription-gated button after...
The Mask Workshop is a secret hideout located underneath Masked Meadows in Fortnite. The Mask Workshop, previously named Daigo’s Underground Hidden Workshop in Chapter 6 Season 1, is a location that appears frequently in story and found quests across Chapter 6. Getting there can be a little tricky because, well, it’s a secret hideout and an easy-to-spot hideout wouldn’t be a hideout, right? Here’s how to get to the Mask...
Not all art books are created equal. While some function as merely a rough compendium of sketches and concept art collected throughout the production of a game, movie, or television series, others rise to the height of being wholesale works of art — labors of love packed to the brim with creative insights and carefully constructed secrets, if not entire worlds unto themselves. The art book for South of Midnight,...
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is suing a former employee, Leroy Nabors, for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract, according to a lawsuit filed April 4 in a North Carolina court. Among the allegations in the complaint, which Polygon has reviewed, Donaldson’s lawyers claim Nabors also installed hidden cameras “throughout Beast’s offices.” Though Donaldson as MrBeast is the face of the brand, his company is expansive; he...
Nintendo’s Switch 2 has exactly one weird and exciting new feature: The Joy-Con 2 can be used like a mouse. And it works well — even on pants! But only a few titles so far have confirmed support for the new hardware, including Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and a new game announced Monday: Mouse Work. Mouse Work is a party game for 1-4 players who can use the Joy-Con 2...
South of Midnight could debatably be called “South of Noon,” based on its release time in some time zones. South of Midnight is a Southern Gothic-inspired action adventure that’s also the next notable “Game Pass” release — a AA game that might fly under the radar but gets a boost by Xbox’s marketing apparatus for launching day one (albeit with staggered access) on Game Pass. So like Avowed, Atomfall, or...
“I don’t think that Game Changer gets meaningfully more ambitious than this season without me getting arrested,” Sam Reich — CEO of Dropout but, more pertinently, host of its flagship competition series, Game Changer — tells Polygon. Seven seasons in, Game Changer has hosted miniature versions of half a dozen reality shows, pulled off even more unique feats of intricately constructed mindfuckery, and variously terrorized, rewarded, thwarted, and bamboozled Dropout’s...
If you have ever found yourself in an unfamiliar room, staring at a closed door and wondering what lies beyond it, then you are already familiar with the mysterious driving force of Blue Prince. Will this door lead to a twisting passageway? A quiet bedroom? Or a grand ballroom? My name is Tonda Ros, an indie developer with a love for atmospheric games, and for the last eight years, I...
We have a full view of Nintendo Switch 2 games now the April 2 Direct has come and gone — including a number of exclusives and launch titles, and that all-important release date for the console itself. It follows months of slim pickings following the console’s initial hardware-focused reveal in January, which also saw developers and publishers holding fire of their involvement until now. The following Switch 2 games list...
My favourite part of A Minecraft Movie, without a shadow of a doubt, has to be Jennifer Coolidge's romance with Nitwit, a villager who escapes the Overworld and gets hit by her car. It's a love story for the ages, and an onscreen romance that Coolidge has herself admitted had some fire to it."Sometimes you show up to a movie and you read the script and they haven't cast your...